For the past 50 years, the Sleichter family has provided the hay for the bucking horses and bulls at the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo in Abilene, Kansas. It started in the 1970s with Jack Sleichter, who was ...

Missouri ranks eighth in the nation in hay production, producing 4.83 million tons per year, according to the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Hay is a major feed for beef production and other ...

Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.

I am a regular reader of your weekly column. Thank you for the good work you are doing in educating us on many topics in livestock keeping. Like any other farmer, I have had great challenges with feed ...

This phrase baffled me when I was young. What did it really mean? My friend Kevin, who grew up on a farm and taught me about baling hay, told me that it has two meanings. The first, literally, was to ...

Anyone can make hay while the sun shines, but it takes a special type of business entrepreneur to make hay in the rain. And, say some, that’s the best time. Years ago, a business partner of Steve ...

One of the surprise winners to emerge from a retail industry buffeted by the pandemic, inflation, tangled supply chains, and inventory gluts has managed to double its sales over the past five years ...

For the past several years, Moore has been trying his hand at the art of making hay the old way in this Carroll County community. A collector of antique farm machinery and a lover of workhorses, he ...